hypothesis-design

hypothesis-design is a skill for Codex from itseffi/agentic-os. It costs 23 tokens per session (352 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing hypotheses—clear statements that predict what will happen in a product experiment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning experiments to find out whether a proposed product change solves a problem.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague ideas into claims that can be checked with evidence.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when planning experiments to find out whether a proposed product change solves a problem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itseffi/agentic-os/hypothesis-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add itseffi/agentic-os --skill hypothesis-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itseffi/agentic-os

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 352 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Fable 5.1 $0.00023 $0.00352
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00141
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00035

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 59d365ddac8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hypothesis-design scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/hypothesis-design/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Product Hypothesis Design

Formulate clear, testable hypotheses for product experiments.

When to Use

When you have a product problem and need to design an experiment to validate a solution.

The Process

1. Identify the Experiment Goal

  • What user problem are you addressing?
  • What change do you think will help?

2. Draft Hypothesis Statement

Use this structure:

[Action] will cause [Outcome] to [Direction] for [Users] under [Conditions]

All 5 components required:

  • Action: What you're doing
  • Outcome: What metric changes
  • Direction: Increase/decrease/improve
  • Users: Who's affected
  • Conditions: When/where this applies

3. Check for Specificity

  • Is the action clearly defined?
  • Is the outcome measurable?
  • Are users and conditions specific?

4. Develop Measurement Plan

  • What metrics prove success?
  • How will you collect data?
  • What's the sample size?

5. Narrative Check

Convert to story format:

Currently, [user] is experiencing [problem].
We believe that by [change], we'll see [outcome].
We'll know we're right when [metric] changes by [amount].

Quality Check

  • Is the hypothesis falsifiable?
  • Can you measure the outcome?
  • Is the timeframe realistic?
  • Are success criteria clear?

When Not to Use

Do not use this skill when the request is unrelated, low-stakes, or better handled by a simpler direct response.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 59d365ddac8b

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hypothesis-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository itseffi/agentic-os (117 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 352 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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